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Here are some new pickups for my Hungarian type set. Some may consider these exonumia, as they are special war issues struck for use in the Kenyérmezö POW Camp during WWI.

The Kenyérmezö POW Camp (1914-1918) was the largest POW camp operated in Hungary during WWI. The camp housed Russian, Italian, and Serbian prisoners of war. It was not uncommon for POW camps to issue their own paper currency during WWI in order to control commerce. This is the only camp, however, that was large enough where it was practical to issue coinage, as by some estimates, the camp housed between 100,000 and 250,000 prisoners.

A series of coins was struck in 1915 that consisted of 1, 2, 10, 20, and 50 fillér denominations. The coins used both Hungarian (obverse) and German (reverse) legends, with the name of the camp in Hungarian on both faces.

Hungary 1 Fillér 1915 (Campbell-1684)
Brass 17mm, 2.41g




Hungary 20 Fillér 1915 (Campbell-1687)
Brass 21mm, 3.46g




Hungary 50 Fillér 1915 (Campbell-1688)
Brass 23mm, 4.14g

 

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Here is a new English Shilling I picked up with some birthday money awhile ago.

Got it for the strong portrait & nice price.


Charles I (1625 - 1649)
AR Shilling
O: CAROLVS D G MAG BRI FRA ET HIB REX (Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland), crowned bust left, XII (value mark) behind.
R: CHRISTO AVSPICE REGNO (I reign under the auspices of Christ), cross moline over square-topped shield coat-of-arms. Triangle-in-circle mintmark.
Tower Mint
6.16g
30mm
SCBC 2799, North 2231

 

My daughter, the Elephant lover, has a birthday coming up soon. This is one of the gifts I am giving her.

 

THIS one looks very cool, bet she'll love it.

 

The reason I love this forum. I had no idea that these issues existed. On my want list now.

 

I went to a local show last weekend and picked up this rupee from Hyderabad. I read the year as 1324, which I think translates to 1906. It doesn't have a high catalog value but I've never seen one.

 

Classic coin. The type that always popped up on the covers of those coin books back when I was a pup.

 

Here's a new pickup for my korona date set.

Hungary 1 Korona 1913KB (KM-492)
AR 0.835, 5g, 23mm x 1.5mm



This is the big key date for the KM-492 type with a reported mintage of only 5,214.

This leaves me with only one remaining hole in my date set for this denomination, as I already have a pair of gem examples of the 1892KB key (mintage of 15,000). The only remaining key date is the 1906KB which, despite the highest mintage of the three at 23,505, appears to be the scarcest by a large margin.

 

These two turtle coins arrived yesterday. 2001 Turkey 10 million lira and 2010 Belarus 20 rubles. Both are silver.

 

I pulled these two out of the five-for-a-dollar bin at the LCS a couple weeks back. The 1/2 gulden has a weird texture, it's almost like it's been in an acid bath or something. Of course, for well under melt value, I wasn't going to complain too much.

 

Just won this. The latest of my proof Australian coins. PF-65

 

that coin is on my want list for the "coins with stars" collection. that has an amazing grade too.

 

Colombia
Province of Santander
Civil war coinage
1902
KM#A3

 

Belarus 2008 1 Rouble Dzyady
5,000 ex.

 

New Korean coin. Very nice looking. My first from Korea. Not cheap for a new modern, ($30) but really like the look. 1 more for my modern world silver collection.
(sellers pics.)

 

Now that is cool. Don't remember seeing this one before.

 

Muscat & Oman
5 Baisa
1945

A 50 Baisa is still on my want list.

 

Another pickup this month for my Netherlands set.
I cant wait to get this in hand. I love the design detail.
(sellers pictures)

 

Found this in a quarter roll.


This is after giving it a scrubbing with Magic Wadding Polish.
It was really ugly before that!